Open letter to the Local Trust Committee
I am a past trustee and a contributor to this week’s Grapevine insert by Trust Watch “Mandates Matter.”
This insert (see below) refers to the legal opinion provided by Don Lidstone KC, Senior Partner of Lidstone & Company. The full text of his document appears in the agenda package for the March 10-12 Trust Council meeting and is available to members of the Local Trust Committee (LTC): our two local trustees and the Chair of the LTC.
As trustees, have you reviewed community responses to the Trust Policy Statement (TPS) drafting process from 2019 to 2026? If so, how would you summarize the support shown for a document failing to address carrying capacity as scientifically defined?
In addition, I ask members of the LTC to clearly state their position on the current version of the TPS. Are you aware that the mandate of the Trust has been made so general that the proposed TPS “prioritizes development?”
I look forward to answers to my questions. Once the TPS is adopted by the Trust Council––to which you all belong–– our Land Use Bylaw and Official Community Plan will be ‘guided’ by that TPS.
Harlene Holm
